mountain hike

Hiking in the mountains

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July 30th 2007
Travel blog for July 30th: Unfortunately the blog has been experiencing technical difficulties the past few days so I lost what I had been blogging the past couple days. To update, we went hiking in the mountains north of Madrid (about 1 hour) on Monday morning. We arrived early, about 9:30am to avoid the midday heat. We hiked for about an hour into the mountains and stopped in a shady area to ha ... read more

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Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in ... ... read more